Northwest Voices
presents
John Daniel
Memoir, Essays, Poetry
Monday, May 18
7 p.m. |
Public Reading at the Longview Public Library. |
Tuesday, May 19
9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Writer’s Workshop: “Finding the Necessary Story” held in the Admissions Building on LCC Campus, Room ADC 143. |
 John Daniel is the author of nine books of memoir, personal essays, and poetry. His new work, The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature, published by Counterpoint in April 2009, is a collection of personal essays that explore various subjects in the human and more-than-human worlds, seeking to define his allegiances to his home places and region and the wholeness of life itself.
Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone, released in 2005, is an account of a four-and-a-half-month
experiment in solitude in the backcountry of the Klamath Mountains in southwestern Oregon, and also a
memoir of Daniel’s father’s life and career in the American labor movement and of his own
growing up and coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s. Rogue River Journal was one of six books
awarded a 2006 PNBA Book Award by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.
John Daniel has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, a
James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State University, and a Research and Writing Fellow at Oregon
State University’s Center for the Humanities. In fall semester 2005 he was Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
at St. Mary’s College of California, teaching the MFA workshop in literary nonfiction. In 2003-04,
2004-05, and spring 2006, he was the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence
University in northern New York State.
Two of Daniel’s books, The Trail Home and
Looking After: A Son’s Memoir,
have won the Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction from Literary Arts, a private non-profit that seeks
to enrich the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. In 1998-99 he held a Creative Writing
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also won the Andres Berger Award for Creative Nonfiction, the annual John Burroughs Nature Essay Award, and a Pushcart Prize, among other honors.
Essays and articles by John Daniel have appeared in Audubon, Outside,
Portland, Bloomsbury Review, North American Review, Southwest Review,
and other journals and magazines, and in such anthologies as Nature Writing: The Tradition in English,
the annual American Nature Writing series, and Facing the Lion: Writers on Life and Craft. His
poems have been published in Poetry, The Southern Review, Sierra, The Pushcart
Prize VIII, Poetry of the American West, and other journals and anthologies. He is poetry
editor of Wilderness magazine, the annual publication of the Wilderness Society.
John Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn Daniel, plus two cats and usually a pack rat,
in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon.
About Northwest Voices
Northwest Voices is a collaboration between the Longview Public Library and Lower Columbia College. The Library welcomes this opportunity to bring community and writers together. Come listen, join in the dialog, and celebrate the voices of our region and our community.
Libraries and writers are natural community partners. Both seek to reach out to readers, to stimulate thinking, to engage people in the pursuit of ideas--the writer as creator and the library as enabler.
Funding comes from the Longview Public Library and the Longview Library Foundation, the Lower Columbia College Foundation, the Friends of the Longview Library, and the Associated Students of Lower Columbia College. All events are free and open to the public.
Past Events
May's Vote
May 4, 2009
 "Give women the vote!" Go back 100 years to spend an evening with two Washington State Suffragettes--prim and proper Emma Smith Devoe (portrayed by Barbara Callander) and outrageous and flamboyant May Arkwright Hutton (portrayed by Toni Douglass)--as they work together towards a common goal, that of getting women of Washington State the right to vote.
Barbara Callander and Toni Douglass each bring over 25 years of professional acting experience to their performances. Ms. Douglass, a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, has performed in theatres throughout the western United States. She is also an established director, playwright, and teacher.
A graduate of Oberlin College, Ms. Callander has appeared with theatres nationwide, and has also worked extensively as an arts administrator. Together, Barbara Callander and Toni Douglass have been touring original plays about women's history for over a decade.
Molly Gloss
March 9, 2009
 Molly Gloss was this year's Cowlitz Reads author, part of an annual celebration of literacy in Cowlitz County.
The prize-winning author, Molly Gloss, is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. The Hearts of Horses, her fourth novel, is the moving tale of a young woman breaking horses for several ranchers in northeastern Oregon in the winter of 1917. The book addresses themes of war, alcoholism, illness and death, commitment to the land, and a sometimes lonely, often harsh way of life. It is a story not soon forgotten.
The Cowlitz Reads project is supported by a grant from the Washington State Library with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Updated 05/12/09
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